Monday, January 27, 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014 Zeb’s Vue


General Information and Analysis


US


Comment for 1/27/2014
Measure
Indicator
Ranking
Weekly RSI
WeeklyRSI
59
Neutral
Long Term MVA (200 day MVA)
200 MVA
5.49%
Neutral
5 Day Slope of 55 day MVA
Slope55MA
0.33%
Neutral
Intermediate Trend (Using ADX)
ADX(14)
16.00
Bearish
Short Term Trend (Daily RSI 3)
RSI(3)
21.79
Oversold
Relative Volatility ATR vs. 1Stdev
ATR(90)
0.93%
Watch Out
VIX - MACD 10/30 (slope down)
MACD
0.570
Weak DT

 

Comment:

 

The market is definitely giving signs of a short to intermediate down turn in direction.  The 200 Day MVA is still a "BUY", but the intermediate signals are either neutral or bearish.  Very short term, RSI(3) is showing Overbought, and in a bull market, this would indicate that today and maybe (stress maybe) tomorrow would be a reaction against last Fridays blood bath.

Volume really picked up on Friday, and that is another signal that the market is in for a significant correct over the short and intermediate term.

 

On Friday I said "Human Behavior, however, suggests that when almost everyone expects the market to go up, it goes down.  Then everyone catches the cold, and starts liquidating.  That liquidation is just what the commercials are looking for, as they will invest on "revert to the mean" in an upward bull market. "

 

 

The table above is a rating for intermediate and long term trend in the S&P500.  I used the S&P 500 as the indicator for the USA stock market.  For day traders: You may find it useful to trade in the direction of the trend.  However, looking at any daily chart over lots of years, the trading direction for the day is pretty random. Note on VIX:  VIX closed at 13.77.  That is not a "bearish" indication.  VIX is moving up albeit not strongly, but 20 is considered to be a bearish sign, and it is a long way from that.   

S&P PIVOT ES Mini March Contract - Tuesday- Useful on Friday 1/10/2014

Yesterday 1-24-04
Day Before Yesterday
High
1828.00
High
1844.00
Low
1780.00
Low
1813.75
Close
1782.00
Close
1823.75
R2
1844.75
R2
1857.50
R1
1813.50
R1
1840.75
Pivot
1796.75
Pivot
1827.25
S1
1765.50
S1
1810.50
S2
1748.75
S2
1797.00

 

Stocks –


Zeb’s View:

Friday was an ugly day for the Bulls.  If you are a retail trader and you invested in the stock market earlier this year on the advice of analysts, you are hurting.

  • The Dow closed -318.25 (-1.96%)
  • The S&P 500 closed -38.17 (-2.09%)
  • The DAX closed -239.05 (-2.48%)
  • The Nikkei closed -406.66 (-2.64%)

 

What was the cause of the Friday's weakness?   Rumors my friends, rumors, and it was the same Thursday.

·         FOMC rumors they will taper more?

·         Japanese Finance manager saying Japan is through tapering?

·         The carry trade between USD/JPY was killed as USD/JPY was down 1.3% (on the comments above)?

·         Chinese Data was not so good?

·         Bank of England will no longer give "rate guidance"?

·         Emerging market currency drop...

One piece of news that was shocking was China's suspension of domestic Renminbi transfers.  Forbes suggests that the suspension may be due to an impending bankruptcy in the "shadow banking" in China.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/06/30/citibank-caught-in-china-cash-crunch-not-making-money-transfers/  There is little real transparency in China in anything.  What you will read is basically an analysis and opinion of Western Reporters.  Only time will tell if China has a problem that would require rethinking of the Global Economy.

In general, traders and investors world-wide are going to be waiting on the FOMC conclusions on Wednesday.  Then Thursday will be a big day with the Labor Report and the first reporting on USA fourth quarter GDP.  Retail sales for the holiday are expected to rise (due to holiday spending).  On Friday the PCE numbers will be released (before adjustments over the next two weeks). 

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